6. The Apocalypse Part I

The Unveiling of [The apokalupsis – the removal of the cover to reveal] Jesus Christ, which God gave to Him to show His servants what is necessary and proper to come into being immediately. And He signed the unveiling, having sent through His angel to His servant, John, who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, of all that he saw. Benefited and enlarged is the one knowing the unveiling for certain and those hearing the words of the prophecy and watching over to guard the things having been written inside of it; because time is near (Revelation 1:1-3). 

Kalupsis is a cover that hides. Apo is to remove or to take off. The apocalypse is the removal of the cover that hides.

My knowledge and definition of the Jesus of my heart is unchanged from that moment when, at age seven, I specifically asked Jesus Himself to come into my heart and to cleanse me from all my sins. As I think back across the years, I see that at no point did that definition and knowing of the Jesus of my heart ever change.

The knowledge and definition of Jesus that I hold in my mind today has no relationship with the definition of Jesus that I held in my mind through most of my Christian life. Looking back to just four years ago, just before I began to write Symmorphy I: Purpose, the Jesus of my mental knowledge was still not nearly the same as the Jesus I know in my mind today.

The difference between the “Jesus” I “knew” in my mind forty and thirty and twenty and ten and five years ago and the Jesus I know in my mind today is quite simple to explain. Then, the Jesus of my mind and the Jesus of my heart were two totally different entities with basically no practical relationship between them.

Today the Jesus of my mind and the Jesus of my heart are the same, more realistically and more graphically than I can state.

How did the Jesus of my mind come into full agreement with the Jesus of my heart?

Before I attempt to answer that question, however, I want to set out a basic outline of what the phrase – the revelation or apocalypse or unveiling of Jesus Christ – means to me. And before doing that, I want to first position Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.

There is a series of videos on YouTube explaining point by point many of the things Sun Tzu taught. I hope to extract several specific points that would be useful to us. I already know what three of those points must be. These three are things that must be known before every battle. To be successful, we must first know ourselves, we must second know the enemy, and we must third know the terrain or ground upon which the battle is to be fought.

The first is to know ourselves, that is, who and what we are, our strengths and capacities, our weaknesses and limitations. I know myself now because the Jesus of my mind and the Jesus of my heart are identical. Yet how I know Jesus, mind and heart together, very much includes the Apocalypse, the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Specifically, the word apokalupsis was used by the Greeks to refer to that moment when a great work of art, say a statute or a beautiful vase, was unveiled to the public. Before the statute was “unveiled,” it was covered over by a non-descript cloth. At the moment of the unveiling, the cover was removed, and the statute was now visible in all of its glory.

Removing the cover did not “create” the statute. The statute was full and complete, already finished, when the cover was removed. The problem was that no one could see it, and thus no one could enjoy what it was.

The Lord Jesus Christ walks this earth today full and complete inside of His physical body. The problem is that no one can see Him, and thus no one can enjoy who and what He is. Before the age of human folly ends, that cover is coming off.

When the cover comes off, whatever the cover is and whatever removing the cover means, then everyone will see and benefit from what has been true all along.

Another way to say the same thing is “full and complete victory.”

I was twenty-one years old when the vision of our victory was first placed before my eyes, that of driving every demon out from the human experience and setting all creation free. That vision in its essence is unchanged as an essential part of the revelation of Jesus Christ. The difference is that now I know how, something we never knew before.

Let me say the same thing using different words and concepts. – Turn the Way for God into the right direction… and the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together (Isaiah 46).

The defeat of sin and death in all outward appearance, cast off from the human experience on this earth. – The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ – Father seen and known by all – same thing.

For many years I believed that the cover that must be removed is our outer sinful human nature. !!!!!!! I was just about to write how wrong I was, when I suddenly realized that I was completely correct. The difference is in defining what that means.

Here’s what just happened in my mind. First I thought of the outer sinful flesh nature as I once imagined it. Then I immediately realized that the problem was placing that sinful nature as our source, placing it, in our imagination, as the cause of who and what we are, that is, our “god.” Then I immediately realized that such a view of myself is finally and completely gone from me as I know myself now as coming out from the Pro-Knowing of my Father through the Jesus of my heart to become me in all my humanity. And then I realized that the cover is removed from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Back then I thought that my “fallen sinful flesh nature” was substantial, that is, “god.” Now I know it to be, not substantial and not even appearance, but imagination.

It’s very simple. – This is age-unfolding life, to know You, the only true God [the only true Source] and Jesus Christ whom You have Sent {into sustaining all by the word of His power}.

And what do people “SEE” when they see and know that Jesus is walking this earth bodily? They will see a family of people living life together, loving one another with a pure heart fervently. They will see God.

LOVE ONE ANOTHER, happening as God among us, that is, simple human believers in Jesus, right here and right now, IS the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ; it IS God revealed.

And so, we see that the apocalypse of Jesus Christ and the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles in the life of the Church and total victory over all sin and death ARE three different ways to describe the same thing, and that same thing is a family of people walking together, loving one another with a pure heart fervently.

The Church, Christian Community in whatever outer form it takes, is the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, that is, His visible appearance to heaven-earth. What, then, is Jesus as the substance of His Church?

Now we come back to my earlier question – How did the Jesus of my mind come into full agreement with the Jesus of my heart? Remember that the Jesus of my heart has never changed.

We cannot win, and we cannot know God, unless we know ourselves. And we cannot know ourselves until the Jesus of our minds knows the Jesus of our hearts as He is. I think that it is very important to us that I trace that path from two Jesus’s utterly separate from each other, as bit by bit over many years, the Jesus of my heart became the Jesus of my mind in all ways.

The Jesus of my mind was pretty much the same as that “Jesus” held in every other Christian’s mind, that is, a humanoid demigod of limited means and relevance, looking like that Italian fellow the artists used as a model, a formed and bound Jesus, far away in “heaven” somewhere, sitting on a formed and bound chair called “the throne,” far superior to me.

There was one difference, however. Most, then, tack an utterly incongruous definition onto that humanoid demigod form – and that is – “co-substantial with the Father,” aka, “the Trinity.” Such a definition cannot have any meaning in itself, rather it serves a very nefarious purpose. “Co-substantial with the Father” BREAKS the Covenant and commits our lives forever to a non-Covenant “heavenly bliss.”

Here is the Covenant – We shall be like Him if we see Him as He is – transformed into the same image – symmorphosed with the image of His Son.

Jesus is “God.” You are NOT! You CANNOT be just like the Lord Jesus Christ, IDIOT, not here, not now, not ever!

Yet the image of this so-called “Jesus as God” that they hold in hardened minds is a limited and fairly irrelevant humanoid demigod far away.

I’m saying all this to say that there is a leap of faith in the Christian walk. Normally we do not define faith as a “leap.” Faith is receiving Seed, not jumping blindly through the air. But in this one instance, choosing to step out into the impossible is required.

When I was twenty-one years old, I made a Covenant with God, the only kind of Covenant God makes with us, an entirely one-sided Covenant. – “God, somehow, I don’t know how, You WILL make me to be just like the Lord Jesus Christ right here on this earth right now in this age.”
I will be just like Jesus.

For twenty years I imagined that Christ and Jesus were two separate things, that Jesus had done His thing and that now I, by the Holy Spirit, must become a son of God.

I failed, utterly and completely.

More than that, in the fall of 1998, as I TURNED MY BACK on all the mental ideas “about” God, I embraced fully the absolute that “I” was incapable of becoming a son of God. And I turned utterly and forever to Jesus my SAVIOR, the Jesus of my heart, the One upon whose breast I always lean my head.

You see, when someone says to me that Christ as me is just me by a vague mental Spirit and that Jesus my Savior is far away from me, it’s not that I resist the temptation to believe them, it’s that I, by human decency, do not strike them to the ground in open rejection of their way of thinking that I HATE, even though such an action is the stern command of my heart.

Understand this – I NEED a Savior, Someone utterly with me, stronger than me, wiser than me, part of me. When I turned my back on all the mental ideas to the Jesus of my heart – in rejecting all the mental stuff, the “true” with the false – what I did NOT do was accuse God of falseness as a God who does not keep Covenant with me. I did not add to the Word God speaks.

To say that I will not be just like Jesus in this age is to call God a liar straight to His face.
At no point did the revelation of Jesus Christ as the Seed in me separate itself from that same Lord Jesus of my heart. In fact, the two came together as one, though I did not yet know what that meant. And that is the whole point.

There is one big difference between me and most Christian teachers. They know everything important that there is to know about God and salvation. I, knowing that I know the Bible better than most, also know that I know hardly anything of God and salvation.

More than that, a million years from now I expect to say that I know hardly anything of God and salvation.

And I STOPPED knowing what it all means when I turned away from mental ideas about God to knowing only the Jesus of my heart, my Savior and my life, close and real.

Augustine: “. . . The Trinity, one God, of Whom are all things, through Whom are all things, in Whom are all things. Thus the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and each of these by Himself is a complete substance, and yet they are all one substance. The Father is not the Son, nor the Holy Spirit; the Son is not the Father nor the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit is not the Father nor the Son; but the Father is only Father, the Son is only Son, and the Holy Spirit is only Holy Spirit. To all three belong the same eternity, the same unchangeableness, the same majesty, the same power . . .”

If this is how you “know” Jesus, then you will NEVER know Him as He is nor will you ever be like Him. These are all mental ideas existing only inside the iron skull of the carnal religious imagination. Even that little bit that is what God actually says – of whom are all things, through whom are all things, in whom are all things – look at that. Even that word that God does speak, no one knows as the Jesus of their hearts; they don’t even believe it. They just mutter those words as mental ideas and live far away from God.

Why? Because in actuality, they believe NONE OF IT.

Yes, Christian, if you say to yourself, “but that’s all true,” you believe none of it. Instead, because you believe that you have a sinful nature of your very own, that you are your own source, you are therefore calling your own mental ideas “God.”

Believing IS Jesus Himself inside your heart – the ideas of your brain cannot ever be “God.”

Cast it all down. Cut it all off. Stop all the stupid ideas “about” the so-called “God” of your imagination. Those ideas will do one thing only for you – they will kill you.

The Jesus of your heart is another Person, a real and living Person, who lives inside of your bubble of self, your human person, and you, in all that you are, live inside of that very Personal Person. And He is always calling you by your name. And He is always causing you to walk as one Pperson together with the Father.

Know Him alone.

But – let’s continue the path, how the Jesus of my mind became the same as the Jesus of my heart.

Calling God a Keeper of Covenant, that I will be just like the Lord Jesus Christ inside this present sphere, is an oath of the heart; it does not exist as any mental idea. Finding God right and true, then, in all things, coming out from acknowledging God as the Keeper of Covenant, is the ONLY path there is into knowing Jesus as He is.

If you believe that you will not be just like Jesus in this present age, then, sadly, you are completely correct. And that also means that you cannot ever see Him as He is for you are calling God a LIAR. You are striking Father with the whips of the serpent.

I don’t know why I feel all fiery this morning. I do not speak to condemn anyone, but to set God’s people free.

When I heard Joel Osteen say, “Speak what God says you are,” I had already fully defined the Jesus of my heart as every Word God speaks.

On the one hand, calling God a Keeper of Covenant is an oath of the heart; on the other hand, calling Jesus every Word God speaks is the first part of the mental knowledge of Jesus able, now to come into agreement with the Jesus of our hearts.

Unless you know Jesus as every Word spoken by God and every Word spoken by God as the Person of Jesus, the One who lives in your heart, the Jesus of your mind cannot ever come into agreement with the Jesus of your heart.

I did not know it then, but as I wrote The Jesus Secret, by knowing with my mind the Jesus who IS every Word God speaks, I placed the Jesus of my heart into my mouth, into speaking the same word, Christ Jesus, now personal as me.

Knowing my precious union with the Lord Jesus Christ, then, is something that happened within my spirit, actually. Yes. It was entirely an experience taking place in my spirit. – He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. My spirit now knew the truth of my life.

Yet this knowing inside my spirit was the power, then, that was able to bring the Jesus of my mind into union with the Jesus of my heart, bit by bit, as I spoke Christ my life until I knew that it was true.

BUT – even though my Father sealed me into the knowledge of my union with Christ in the summer of 2013, in the fall of that same year, I receive a question from a brother whom I have known for many years, a question that went back and forth inside the move fellowship.

And that question is (my paraphrase) – Yes, God reveals Christ through us His Church, but will Jesus also, as a separate human in His own physical body, also reign and fellowship with us? At that time, the Jesus of my mind and the Jesus of my heart were still too far apart for me to be able to give the powerful answer that I give now.

So we are still looking at the path and the key turning points in that path.

Jesus, as every Word God speaks, must be in your mouth, you speaking that same word of Christ, before the Jesus of your mind could ever become the Jesus of your heart.

Let’s follow my path through the Symmorphy texts. In Symmorphy I: Purpose, I set forth the Jesus of Gethsemane saying, “Here am I, I and the children whom You, Father, have given Me.”

We will never know Father or Jesus as They are unless we begin with the Father revealed through Jesus in Gethsemane. More than that, we will not know this Jesus of Gethsemane unless we know that we were there, literally and substantially, in person, inside of Him, speaking the same things with Him as one voice and one heart together. AND – that this same Jesus rising to His feet in Gethsemane continues now as the Jesus of our heart, the Jesus who is all that He is inside of all that we are. The mental knowledge that God is a PERSONAL Person is critical.

Then, in Symmorphy II: Essence, I set forth all that I knew regarding my definitions of God, of man, of Christ Jesus, and of salvation. It was here that I began to realize that the human Jesus we know now exists in the form of a life-giving Spirit, that is, in the form of God, all-here-now, and Personal inside of each one of us, yet remaining human, yet also connecting our humanity with God and God’s divinity with us, utterly together.

And in every one of the Symmorphy texts, you will find sharing Hheart with God, the Ekenosis, Father becoming seen and known through the Mercy Seat of our hearts, as the climax and center of each. This knowing of the Ekenosis, sharing Hheart with God, however, is not found in the mind, but rather it is an extension of the oath of our hearts to God that God is a Keeper of Covenant.

Through all the years that I held my Bible upon my chest and, in tears, contended with God that He would plant His Word as the very essence of my heart and life, I was contending with God regarding His Covenant with me.

I will be just like Jesus – I will share Hheart with God – same thing.

And yet I learned to say, not “I will,” but “I am.” And I am able to say “I am” because I obey Jesus. I obey Jesus by asking God to do what He says inside of me and then believing with all my heart that He IS.

Then, as I wrote Symmorphy III: Kingdom, Christ Jesus – binary electrical currents – and Spirit-Word – all became the same in my understanding. God was preparing the understanding of my mind by the Spirit so that two more huge cornerstones could come into place in my mental understanding, utterly overshadowed by the Spirit, as I wrote Symmorphy IV: Covenant.

Those two huge cornerstones are first, knowing the Pro-Knowing of God, that I exist inside of God in substance as His thoughts concerning me. And second, knowing the ENERGEIA that is Jesus as Spirit Word inside of me, as the speaking of God’s thoughts, as dynamic and living, electrified and ever-swirling power now become me.

In Symmorphy V: Life, we put before our eyes exactly what Jesus looks like as the cover is taken off, arriving at the conclusion that LOVE ONE ANOTHER is God revealed. In that wonderful text, I also was able to say, for the first time, that we together ARE together the physical body of the Lord Jesus Christ walking this earth right now, and to know how that is so.

But the final key that cut off from me forever any shadow of a false mental “Jesus,” is found in Set My People Free, Lesson 2.3, and expressed again in the recent letter, “What Is My Source?”

Picture the vilest expression of human iniquity you can conceive, actions that, if you saw them demonstrated in public with fists raised against the Father (middle finger extended), you would vomit uncontrollably. Then increase that picture by ten thousand and you will be seeing the monstrous boast, “I have a fallen sinful nature of my own and I hate it.”

This is the vile rebellion at the heart of all evil. – “I am my own source; I am my own god. And I hate myself because I don’t look like my mental image of the super-Christ.”

It was as I wrote those words in Set My People Free that the Jesus of my mind and the Jesus of my heart came together fully as one. I now KNOW, in every quiet simplicity, that I AM coming out from my Father through Christ Jesus as the revelation of God.

When He had, by Himself, purged our sins, He sat down at the right hand of God, that is, inside my heart.

For the first time in my life, I know myself, who and what I am.

I am just like Jesus in all ways; I am the revelation of Father.

And now, for the first time, I can understand the enemy, the ground, the battle, and the victory. For the first time, I am able to know and to be together with you the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ.